Semiconductors Startups

aXenic designs, develops and manufactures optical modulators (including Mach-Zehnder modulators in Gallium Arsenide, Indium Phosphide and Lithium Niobate) for satellite, aerospace and defense communications and sensing. It offers custom device design, prototyping, packaging, testing and qualified production runs, plus engineering consultancy for high-performance optical modulators and transmitters.

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Axonne develops high-performance Automotive Ethernet connectivity solutions, including PHY transceivers and bridges supporting 1Gbps to 10Gbps, for building zonal in-vehicle network architectures. Its products target automotive and autonomous vehicle applications, connecting sensors such as cameras, RADAR, and LiDAR for AI/ML inference.

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Baud Labs designs specialized AI chips that reduce the computational cost and power consumption of training and serving large language models by replacing multiplication-based arithmetic with addition-based operations. The company provides both custom silicon and a PyTorch-compatible compiler to enable organizations of all sizes to run AI workloads more efficiently.

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BEAM Technologies develops semiconductor manufacturing platforms that leverage microgravity in space to produce high-quality compound semiconductors for AI data centers, next-generation communications, and power conversion applications. The company uses the International Space Station and autonomous orbital manufacturing platforms to grow crystals with reduced defects and improved purity compared to Earth-based production.

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BeammWave develops fully digital mmWave beamforming technology and radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for 5G applications, adaptable across smartphones, fixed wireless access CPE, and base stations. Its digital beamforming approach targets higher throughput and capacity for device makers and network operators compared to analog systems.

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Besxar is developing reusable orbital manufacturing platforms called Fabships that use the vacuum of space to produce ultra-pure materials and semiconductors for use in AI, quantum computing, nuclear, and defense applications. The company operates in space-based semiconductor and materials manufacturing.

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Blue Cheetah develops customizable die-to-die interconnect IP for chiplets, offering physical and link layer interfaces that support open standards such as UCIe and Bunch of Wires. Its solutions target AI, high performance computing, and mobile applications across advanced 2D, 2.5D, and 3D packaging.

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BluGlass is a semiconductor manufacturer that designs, fabricates, and packages custom and volume GaN laser diodes and LED products, offering wavelengths from 405nm to 525nm. It serves the industrial, display, defence, and scientific markets, using its proprietary remote plasma chemical vapour deposition (RPCVD) growth technology, with facilities in Sydney, Australia and Nashua, USA.</parameter> <parameter name="hq_city">Sydney

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BoolSi is a platform that compiles hot C or C++ functions in embedded applications into custom digital logic co-processors, generating, verifying, and deploying hardware bitstreams without HDL or a parallel codebase. It targets developers of robotics and embedded devices whose products are bottlenecked by CPUs or microcontrollers and need application-specific hardware acceleration.

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BOS designs automotive semiconductors, including chiplet-based system-on-chip and AI accelerator products for ADAS, in-vehicle infotainment, and physical AI applications in vehicles, advanced mobility, and robotics. Its chips implement NPU cores in collaboration with AI IP provider Tenstorrent.

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Bouffalo Lab is a fabless IC design company that develops low-power wireless connectivity chips, including WiFi, WiFi 6, BLE, Zigbee, and combination AIoT chips supporting the Matter smart home standard. Its products target IoT and smart home device makers.

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Brain-CA Technologies builds an energy-efficient AI learning system based on Cellular Automata and Teleomorphic Computing, replacing heavy neural-network computation with a patented "Estimator" design that removes the Von Neumann bottleneck. Its long-term aim is a hardware "brain-on-a-chip" delivering low-power intelligent computing in silicon, and it has published a book, The Intelligence Shift.

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BridgeWave develops high-capacity wireless backhaul systems built on its own software-defined RF ASIC chips for the 6-42GHz bands and a four-channel baseband SOC supporting up to 2000MHz of aggregated bandwidth and capacities over 10Gbps. Its systems serve applications such as video surveillance, delivering network backhaul for high-definition streaming to command centers.

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Brilliance develops a compact, energy-efficient RGB laser chip based on a patented silicon-nitride integrated photonics platform, manufactured at wafer scale using semiconductor processes. The chip is sold as an SMD component to makers of projection devices and augmented reality glasses.

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BSemis builds intelligent, high-reliability sensors across the imaging spectrum that connect devices and enable edge AI for real-time insights in mission-critical applications. Its sensors serve surveillance, military/defense, automotive, and IoT/machine vision customers.

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C2MI is a research and development center for electronic systems, offering infrastructure and scientific equipment for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), advanced semiconductor packaging, compound semiconductors, and printable electronics. It supports both small and large companies in developing microelectronic components from prototyping through commercialization across sectors such as aerospace, agriculture, communications, energy, quantum, and life sciences.

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Caesarea Labs develops electronic design automation (EDA) and manufacturing execution systems (MES) tools to accelerate post-silicon validation testing in semiconductor chip development. The company serves semiconductor manufacturers looking to reduce test design time, improve process visibility, and lower validation costs.

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Celera Technologies designs custom analog integrated circuit (IC) solutions, using AI-accelerated workflows to replace legacy analog design flows and shorten delivery times. It serves chip and hardware developers seeking custom analog silicon.

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Celero Communications develops coherent DSP (digital signal processor) technology for high-bandwidth, low-power optical connections used in AI and data center infrastructure. Its platform provides scalable optical links between AI accelerators, servers, and clusters for accelerated computing.

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CEMWorks develops physics-based electromagnetic simulation software for electronic design automation (EDA), targeting engineers working on semiconductors, wireless systems (5G/6G), aerospace, automotive, and defense applications. Its tools model large-scale, high-frequency electromagnetic interactions to speed up design cycles for complex electronic systems.

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Cenfire develops MEMS switches designed to overcome metal fatigue issues in conventional cantilever-based switches, enabling devices to withstand billions of cycles. The technology targets applications requiring high-cycle switch reliability.

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Centera Photonics develops optical interconnect components and systems using wafer-level semiconductor process and optical system design, offering optoelectronic key components, total solutions, and customization. Its target markets include hyperscale and enterprise datacenters, cloud and high performance computing, storage, and consumer electronics.

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Chain Reaction designs processors, including its 3PU FHE processor, that make fully homomorphic encryption practical for large-scale computation on encrypted data. Its hardware targets privacy-preserving AI and cloud workloads.

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Chip Analog designs high-performance analog semiconductors, including isolation and interface products, digital isolators, isolated sampling and drivers, signal chain, sensor, and power management chips. Its products serve industrial automation and robotics, energy and AI applications (such as photovoltaic inverters, energy storage, and charging stations), automotive electronics, and communications equipment.

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